Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 16:16:45 GMT
Post the best unorthodox personal interpretations and theories about your favourite characters here!
Here are a few of mine:
Wolverine - Many view him as the ultimate badass hero, and that is partly due to how many interpretations of him there have been over the years. Sometimes he may be an upstanding hero with a more relaxed moral code, and sometimes he's a disagreeable and unlikable jerk. I have a theory that James actually suffers from schizophrenia, and perhaps Alzheimer's disease. That accounts for why his personality seems to always be changing, and it also accounts for his immensely hypocritical speeches. Even though he's a member of the X-Men, a team that has employed children as soldiers since its inception, Wolverine was apparently disgusted by the fact that Cyclops wanted to send children into battle, and so Wolverine started his own school instead. Which did pretty much the same thing as Xavier's school. Not to mention the fact that Wolverine has had so many teenaged sidekicks over the years, and he never saw a problem with that.
I suppose this was an ill attempt to make Wolverine a 'friend to all children who also happens to be a killing badass' archetype like so many heroes and anti-heroes, but it just came across as hypocritical. However, if you lived for as long as Wolverine has lived, and witnessed as many tragedies and horrific things as he has, then you would probably be both a bit forgetful and unpredictable. Since I realised this, Wolverine, in my eyes, has actually become even more sympathetic than before.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - This all comes down to something he said during the climatic battle at the end of Revenge of the Sith. Just before he got out his lightsaber and prepared to face his old pupil in a fight to the death, Obi-Wan said "Only a Sith deals in absolutes". As someone on TV Tropes pointed out, that statement is very absolute in itself. At that point, I believe that Obi-Wan was starting to become a little disillusioned with the Jedi ideals himself, but simply couldn't admit it since it was all he had ever known. He freaking screamed at Anakin in an attempt to prove that the Jedi ideals were infallible and that Palpatine's were 'evil'. The latter point is undoubtable, but the Jedi ways are far from ideal. Of course, there is the infamous 'no marriage/no love' rule which would probably drive anyone insane, and Obi-Wan himself grew attached to many women over the years, but still managed to ignore his feelings. I mean, can you imagine living a life where you cannot form a true attachment to anyone, or you will be expelled from the place you live in?
I also think that Obi-Wan, while disguised as Ben on Tatooine, didn't really want to train Luke as a Jedi. His only goal was to protect Luke, not train him or anything. However, when the Imperials came to Luke's home and everything, Obi-Wan realised that Luke simply had to learn the combat techniques and skills in order to survive and eventually save the Galaxy. Obi-Wan knew that Luke would eventually restart the Jedi Order, but he also realised that Luke would make changes and saw that as a good thing.
The original X-Men - They were all perverts. Seriously though, have any of you read the first ever X-Men issue? When Jean Grey first arrived at the school, all of the male X-Men acted as if none of them had ever seen a female before and started acting like total creeps. They were also very misogynistic, which is best shown when Beast sarcastically called Jean a 'credit to her gender' when she mistook a screwdriver for a pair of plyers or something, which could have just been a slip of the tongue. Assholes.
Here are a few of mine:
Wolverine - Many view him as the ultimate badass hero, and that is partly due to how many interpretations of him there have been over the years. Sometimes he may be an upstanding hero with a more relaxed moral code, and sometimes he's a disagreeable and unlikable jerk. I have a theory that James actually suffers from schizophrenia, and perhaps Alzheimer's disease. That accounts for why his personality seems to always be changing, and it also accounts for his immensely hypocritical speeches. Even though he's a member of the X-Men, a team that has employed children as soldiers since its inception, Wolverine was apparently disgusted by the fact that Cyclops wanted to send children into battle, and so Wolverine started his own school instead. Which did pretty much the same thing as Xavier's school. Not to mention the fact that Wolverine has had so many teenaged sidekicks over the years, and he never saw a problem with that.
I suppose this was an ill attempt to make Wolverine a 'friend to all children who also happens to be a killing badass' archetype like so many heroes and anti-heroes, but it just came across as hypocritical. However, if you lived for as long as Wolverine has lived, and witnessed as many tragedies and horrific things as he has, then you would probably be both a bit forgetful and unpredictable. Since I realised this, Wolverine, in my eyes, has actually become even more sympathetic than before.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - This all comes down to something he said during the climatic battle at the end of Revenge of the Sith. Just before he got out his lightsaber and prepared to face his old pupil in a fight to the death, Obi-Wan said "Only a Sith deals in absolutes". As someone on TV Tropes pointed out, that statement is very absolute in itself. At that point, I believe that Obi-Wan was starting to become a little disillusioned with the Jedi ideals himself, but simply couldn't admit it since it was all he had ever known. He freaking screamed at Anakin in an attempt to prove that the Jedi ideals were infallible and that Palpatine's were 'evil'. The latter point is undoubtable, but the Jedi ways are far from ideal. Of course, there is the infamous 'no marriage/no love' rule which would probably drive anyone insane, and Obi-Wan himself grew attached to many women over the years, but still managed to ignore his feelings. I mean, can you imagine living a life where you cannot form a true attachment to anyone, or you will be expelled from the place you live in?
I also think that Obi-Wan, while disguised as Ben on Tatooine, didn't really want to train Luke as a Jedi. His only goal was to protect Luke, not train him or anything. However, when the Imperials came to Luke's home and everything, Obi-Wan realised that Luke simply had to learn the combat techniques and skills in order to survive and eventually save the Galaxy. Obi-Wan knew that Luke would eventually restart the Jedi Order, but he also realised that Luke would make changes and saw that as a good thing.
The original X-Men - They were all perverts. Seriously though, have any of you read the first ever X-Men issue? When Jean Grey first arrived at the school, all of the male X-Men acted as if none of them had ever seen a female before and started acting like total creeps. They were also very misogynistic, which is best shown when Beast sarcastically called Jean a 'credit to her gender' when she mistook a screwdriver for a pair of plyers or something, which could have just been a slip of the tongue. Assholes.